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Rachel Sklar

Welcome to the 44th episode of the Mediatwits podcast, this time with Mark Glaser and the Rachel Sklar as co-hosts. Sklar is a writer and social entrepreneur, and is filling in for Rafat Ali. This week, we convene a special roundtable to discuss how social media is changing activism, in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting, in a backlash to Rush Limbaugh, and in many other cases. Our special guests include BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti, Ohio State civil rights history professor Hasan Kwame Jeffries and Change.org’s Brianna Cayo-Cotter. How do activist campaigns go viral, and can they go too far?

Then we talk about the recent legal drama around social network Pinterest, where some copyright holders have been upset with use of their images. The social network recently changed its Terms of Service so it no longer had the right to sell the images of people who posted on the site. Plus, it now allows self-promotion. Special guest Steve Eder of the Wall Street Journal talks about the various copyright debates Pinterest has spawned in the legal community.

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People using social media helped organize street protests against the shooting of Trayvon Martin around the country on March 24. Photo by "Mike Yen":http://www.flickr.com/people/myen/ via Flickr.

All these old network ideas, that we're all connected, that one person can share something with a few friends that then reaches millions of people, that's been happening at a faster rate." -Jonah Peretti

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